Quotes By Stephen Gardiner

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark.

The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.

Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads.

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

It was only from an inner calm that man was able to discover and shape calm surroundings.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.